Timestamp #7 - Land of Sky-Blue Waters 3/3, NC17, Dean/Sam

[maygra]

Land of Sky-Blue Waters (3/3)
by Maygra

Dean/Sam. NC17. More or less follows Dead Man's Curve. (For Allie who wanted 15 weeks later.)

Part of the Open Road Series of loosely affiliated stories: (Reminders of Echoes, Midnight at the Majestic, and Land of Trembling Earth).

Many thanks to demrepic and ruby_jelly for the beta,

The characters and situations

Comments

[harrigan]

I love the language of your prose so much it hurts. Thank you for this.

[maygra]

You are very welcome. Thank you for the lovely comment.

[tabaqui]

Oh, lovely. I very much liked the slow and winding pace of this story. Much like a little stream. :) And how the undercurrents of worry and anger and fear carried everything along but didn't overwhelm the story. Even in the midst of running through a rain storm, this story is *quiet*, and i like that.

It's a little sad to see how alone the boys are - so cut off from everyone except on the most superficial of levels. But it's good to know they have each other and that that's really *enough*, they aren't desperate for more or fighting for change, they've settled into their roles and they have what they need.

So, bittersweet, gorgeous, *erotic* rather than sexy and totally satisfying. Lovely stuff!

[maygra]

Thank you. Seriously. I was afraid the pacing might be a bit too slow, but it didn't want to be told any faster.

I think, at this point, they are still struggling with a lot of things, Somewhere in the back of my head, a year or two forward, they actually have come to turns an aren't quite so isolated. They've lost their anchor in John, but are starting to forge a new one between themselves.

Re: poetic

[maygra]

Thank you -- and for all your help. *kidnaps you and keeps you in the beta villa*

[riverbella]

You already know how much I love this series. This was just magnificent. No matter where you take them, you put the reader right there, all the way, both physically with the beautiful descriptions and sense of place and emotionally with the tangible relationship between the brothers. To read is to watch the story unfold in front of you and inside your own head at the same time. The gentle melancholy that informs all the pieces in this series is broadened here to include the tale of the unknown creature that offers no harm, causes it only by mistake (and mostly to itself) only because it is difficult for Dean to see past his fears where Sam is concerned and in the end perhaps manages to communicate its plea too late. The ambiguity of its fate is painful, but fitting to the story. Sam's conviction that his love will always bring him back to his brother and his recognition that Dean simply does not have in him what he needs to be able to believe it feels so true to the characters at the deepest level no matter how different the

[maygra]

Thank you so much. I kind of love this verse a lot and it pleases me no end that other people do as well. Sam, I think, has more confidence in Dean than in himself.

[acostilow]

*tiny flappy hands*

Can't speak. Too much awesome.

Gleeeee.

[maygra]

Thanks, babe!